A Security Policy Language for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author(s)

David W. Marsh, Air Force Institute of Technology
Rusty O. Baldwin, University of DaytonFollow
Barry Mullins, Air Force Institute of Technology
Robert F. Mills, Air Force Institute of Technology
Michael Grimaila, Air Force Institute of Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2009

Publication Source

Journal of Systems and Software

Abstract

Authenticated computer system users are only authorized to access certain data within the system. In the future, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will need to restrict access to data as well. To date, WSN security has largely been based on encryption and authentication schemes. The WSN Authorization Specification Language (WASL) is a mechanism-independent composable WSN policy language that can specify arbitrary and composable security policies that are able to span and integrate multiple WSN policies. Using WASL, a multi-level security policy for a 1000 node network requires only 60 bytes of memory per node.

Inclusive pages

101-111

ISBN/ISSN

0164-1212

Comments

Permission documentation on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2009, Elsevier

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

82

Peer Reviewed

yes

Issue

1

eCommons Citation

Marsh, David W.; Baldwin, Rusty O.; Mullins, Barry; Mills, Robert F.; and Grimaila, Michael, "A Security Policy Language for Wireless Sensor Networks" (2009). Computer Science Faculty Publications. 116.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cps_fac_pub/116